The sun has already gone down below the peak on the left. I was waiting to see if it might come out in the gap, but alas, not. It did however light up the snow that was blowing around at elevation.

I thought I was coming up with a new perspective on Mount Rundle. It turns out that I actually uploaded a very similar pic to this one exactly a year ago. I must be trapped in some kind of time warp.

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Yes, I'm surrounded by the mountains, but sometimes I just need to look at the trees. If I look hard enough, I can see the forest for the trees.

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Our weather has been so up and down this winter that I haven't got out as many times as I wished. But there were a couple of good days last week that got me out on my skis.

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I'm sitting in an office waiting room looking up through the central open space wondering about time travel and the size of the universe.

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What do you do in a polar vortex? You bundle up, and you go out for a walk. A sundog (aka parhelion) is an atmospheric optical illusion that appears as two bright spots flanking the sun, connected overhead by a bright halo, often with rainbow effects. Sundogs are caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Walking towards a sundog is like walking towards a rainbow.

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